@kudit: My pm response to your reply is stuck in my outbox, so I am going to post it here: hq or xlhq is fine. If you could batch rename xlhq's to .full.jpg, that would work as well. I've been trying to find an android-compatible renaming tool, but nothing I've encountered works without issues.

"I just woke up, haven't had coffee, let alone a pee in 7 days, and I find out you stole my ass and made a ...mini-me! Carter, I should be irked currently, yes?" - Jack O'Neill

So, just to give this thread a bump and answer a question asked, I thought I might take a moment and post pictures of the blank cards included with the Pro Tour and World Championship decks over the years.

Notes on the pictures:1) Each pictured card is from a deck that was purchased sealed, so I'm confident that those are the blank cards that represent the print run.2) I checked multiple cards within the deck, and if I had multiple sealed decks from that year, I compared them, to make sure the pictured card sample was representative.

Both of these conditions are important, as I found that the blank cards in the decks don't agree with Magic Librarities in one case.

* Magic Librarities listed Kai Budde's 1999 deck blank cards to have a "with bevel" printing, while other blank cards from other decks that year did not. I did not find this to be the case; my Kai Budde deck blank cards were the same as the other decks.

2000 - 5ED frame without a bevel

So, year 2000... same as all the other cards without bevel... but wait, what's that?

Best I can tell is that there was some weird image template thing going on with year 2000. It looks like it could be moire from the camera, but it's not; it's printed that way. I do seem to remember some poorly pixelated art from Mercadian Masques or other sets... maybe just a sign of the times?

2001 - 5ED frame without a bevel

2002 - 5ED frame with a bevel

2003 - 8ED frame

2004 - 8ED frame

And that's what I know for now.

Scans of the blank cards will be included with the other deck images... which are in-progress, I believe.

rotarydials wrote:Both of these conditions are important, as I found that the blank cards in the decks don't agree with Magic Librarities in one case.

1999 - 5ED frame without a bevel * Magic Librarities listed Kai Budde's 1999 deck blank cards to have a "with bevel" printing, while other blank cards from other decks that year did not. I did not find this to be the case; my Kai Budde deck blank cards were the same as the other decks.

Hi

As I was not the one that added that subsection or did opened that Kai Budde's deck back in the years, but I totally trust that info. I went to look back at what you mentioned:

Usually all blank cards are identical in each deck. However, in case of the 1999 World Championships deck by Kai Budde, a single blank card with bevelled edges was inserted, while all other blank cards of the deck have plain edges.

So, 12 Blank cards in Kai Budde's deck. Out of the 12:11 blank cards frame without a bevel1 blank card with a bevel

To make sure when yours was opened:12 blank cards frame without a bevel

Looks like, that when it comes to that specific deck, 2 variants exist then. Question is, was that a lonely case or from one to another Kai Budde's deck (or another deck), you can find the 2 variants ?

I can't help on that matter, all the World Championships Decks that I own belong to my sealed collection. It will be interesting to find out so I can modify the info in the index.

One question, why do you name them 5Th Edition Frame ?

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dragsamou wrote:One question, why do you name them 5Th Edition Frame ?

In the sets before 5E, the borders were inconsistent in exact size and formatting across individual sets, so just for purposes of processing card images I think of these as the "5E frames" since that's when this format and size was standardized for sets up until they replaced the frame in 8E.

So, I went to find pics of the blank cards on the internet for the 1999 Tokyo Decks and this is what I find. I don't know from which deck (s) it comes from but out of the ones, there's indeed one with a bevel so reconfirming that variants exist and that it's not a lonely case.

PS: If you look for the original pics, just type on "The Bay": MtG-Magic-the-Gathering-12-Blank-World-Championship-Proxy-Alter-Card-1999-Tokyo

dragsamou wrote:So, 12 Blank cards in Kai Budde's deck. Out of the 12:11 blank cards frame without a bevel1 blank card with a bevel

To make sure when yours was opened:12 blank cards frame without a bevel

So, here's the point where I smack my forehead - I hadn't realized that ONE of the twelve blank cards had the bevel! I made the assumption <insert relevant quote about assumptions here> that ALL 12 cards in Kai's 1999 deck had the bevel, hence my note about disagreeing with the Magic Librarities page.

BUT - sure enough, going back into the deck - I have 11 cards without a bevel, and 1 blank card with bevel.

SO-> no 2 variant situation, thankfully.

Still -> how weird is it that ONE blank with bevels slipped into the 1999 decks?

dragsamou wrote:One question, why do you name them 5Th Edition Frame ?

Regarding this, agree with charlequin's explanation; also, skibulk used this terminology, so I just ran with it.

rotarydials wrote:BUT - sure enough, going back into the deck - I have 11 cards without a bevel, and 1 blank card with bevel.

SO-> no 2 variant situation, thankfully.

Still -> how weird is it that ONE blank with bevels slipped into the 1999 decks?

Hi

All fine, I should rephrase the sentence on Magiclibrarities Index if it was confusing, but as it was never mentioned before, I'm aware of it now and will do for better clarification, info is already in the Image tabs.

There's only a variant then in Kai Budde's deck. This is indeed a real mystery, but with WotC, I'm not surprised. The only Gold Border Filler Card came from 2003 World Championships Wolfgang Eder deck. It was in place of a Goblin Piledriver in the Wolfgang Eder deck.

Please double check for all the others Support cards, hoping there's not another surprise, but normally it should be accurate in that subsection.